Study Guide

Objective

The student:
-knows how to work with an attitude of self-management and leading a team.
-can identify and interpret legislation, norms and collective agreements related to working life.
-is aware of his/her responsibility for the quality of nursing in his/her own activity and in the organization.
-can assess the quality of nursing work and the organization of nursing work, as well as prevent and identify quality deviations in all different stages of the care processes.
-is able to prevent and detect shortcomings in the quality of the nursing process.
-is able to evaluate quality throughout the nursing process and understand the responsibility in securing and promoting patient safety.

Content

-Finnish labor legislation, collective agreements and national quality recommendations
-Treatment / Care recommendations, treatment classifications, quality systems, quality management.
-Cost awareness and the basics of financial operations
-Recruitment, induction, mentoring and student guidance
-Development discussions, lifelong learning
-Identifying nursing development and research targets

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
The student
- is able to recognize the meaning of management as a member of the working community and different networks.
- is able to analyze the topics of management and quality assurance from a limited viewpoint.
- is able to combine the topics related to health care organisations in a limited way.
- is able to utilize the laws and norms of working life in a limited way in health care organizations.
- is able to list the needs of the quality assurance methods.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
The student
- is able to manage himself/herself as a member of the working community and different networks.
- is able to handle the topics of management and quality assurance widely.
- is able to combine the topics related to health care organizations.
- is able to utilize the laws and norms of working life in health care organizations.
- is able to analyze the needs of quality assurance and patient-safety in health care organizations.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
The student
- is able to manage himself/herself responsibly as a member of the working community and different networks.
- is able to seek the most recent research knowledge related to topics of management and quality assurance.
- is able to deal with the topics comprehensively related to the health care organizations.
- is able to apply and work critically according to the laws and norms of working life.
- is able to justify and make decisions regarding quality assurance and patient-safety in health care organizations.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Failed = 0
The student
- is not able to recognize the meaning of management as a member of the working community and different networks.
- is able to analyze the topics of management and quality assurance without connection to health care organizations or instructions of the assignment.
- is not able to describe the main laws and norms of working life.
- is not able to recognize the needs of the quality assurance methods in health care organizations.